Azure Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 25 10
Rank change year-on-year +9 -15 -4
Contract jobs citing Azure 138 24 57
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 12.55% 6.45% 12.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.11% 21.43% 41.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 17 47
10th Percentile £407 £185 £185
25th Percentile £463 £350 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.21% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £588
90th Percentile £688 £543 £623
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £438 £500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -9.09%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South Yorkshire

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 474 112 136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 43.09% 30.11% 29.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 87 97
10th Percentile £366 £233 £200
25th Percentile £417 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £518 £485
Median % change year-on-year -4.54% +6.70% -13.78%
75th Percentile £558 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £660 £623
Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +3.05% -4.04% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £15.20
25th Percentile - - £17.75
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £56.50 £62.40 £15.00
% change year-on-year -9.46% +316.00% -65.32%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Azure job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 15 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in South Yorkshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 15 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield +9 135 £514 +8.21% 29
Doncaster - 1 £525 -
Azure
Yorkshire

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (7.25%) Confluence
2 9 (6.52%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.62%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.72%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.72%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.72%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 85 (61.59%) AWS
2 81 (58.70%) GCP
3 22 (15.94%) Entra ID
4 20 (14.49%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (13.77%) OpenShift
6 16 (11.59%) GitHub
7 14 (10.14%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (8.70%) Power Platform
9 7 (5.07%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (5.07%) OneDrive
10 6 (4.35%) SaaS
11 5 (3.62%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (2.90%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (2.90%) Azure Storage
12 4 (2.90%) ChatGPT
12 4 (2.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 4 (2.90%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (2.90%) Serverless
13 3 (2.17%) Azure Functions
13 3 (2.17%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.80%) Firewall
2 7 (5.07%) SAN
3 6 (4.35%) DNS
3 6 (4.35%) TCP/IP
4 5 (3.62%) Kerberos
4 5 (3.62%) Network Security
5 3 (2.17%) VPN
6 2 (1.45%) NAS
6 2 (1.45%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.72%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (0.72%) HTTP
7 1 (0.72%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.72%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.72%) SSL
7 1 (0.72%) VSAN
7 1 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.25%) Power BI
2 9 (6.52%) SQL Server
3 8 (5.80%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (3.62%) Big Data
5 5 (3.62%) MySQL
6 4 (2.90%) Delta Lake
6 4 (2.90%) Neo4j
6 4 (2.90%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (2.17%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.17%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.45%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.72%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.72%) DB2
9 1 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.72%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.72%) Parquet
9 1 (0.72%) Redis
9 1 (0.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (25.36%) Jenkins
2 30 (21.74%) JIRA
3 26 (18.84%) GitLab
4 14 (10.14%) Selenium
5 13 (9.42%) Cucumber
5 13 (9.42%) REST Assured
6 12 (8.70%) Git
6 12 (8.70%) Postman
7 5 (3.62%) Gatling
7 5 (3.62%) JMeter
7 5 (3.62%) TestRail
8 4 (2.90%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.90%) LoadRunner
8 4 (2.90%) NeoLoad
9 3 (2.17%) Browser DevTools
9 3 (2.17%) CircleCI
9 3 (2.17%) Fiddler
10 2 (1.45%) JUnit
10 2 (1.45%) Maven
10 2 (1.45%) SoapUI
General
1 60 (43.48%) Social Skills
2 46 (33.33%) Finance
3 26 (18.84%) Banking
4 9 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.35%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.90%) Financial Institution
6 4 (2.90%) Law
6 4 (2.90%) Legal
7 2 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.72%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.72%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (20.29%) Lead
2 22 (15.94%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (10.14%) Architect
4 10 (7.25%) Test Automation Engineer
4 10 (7.25%) Test Engineer
5 8 (5.80%) Developer
6 7 (5.07%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (5.07%) Consultant
7 6 (4.35%) Automation Test Lead
7 6 (4.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 6 (4.35%) Data Engineer
7 6 (4.35%) Security Engineer
7 6 (4.35%) Test Leader
8 5 (3.62%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 5 (3.62%) Java Developer
8 5 (3.62%) Lead DevOps
8 5 (3.62%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 5 (3.62%) Senior
8 5 (3.62%) Test Architect
8 5 (3.62%) Test Automation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (18.84%) OpenID
2 25 (18.12%) REST
3 23 (16.67%) LDAP
4 16 (11.59%) SailPoint
5 11 (7.97%) OAuth
6 10 (7.25%) SAML
7 7 (5.07%) .NET
7 7 (5.07%) Middleware
8 6 (4.35%) Spring Boot
9 5 (3.62%) Kafka
9 5 (3.62%) OAuth2
9 5 (3.62%) Playwright
9 5 (3.62%) PySpark
10 4 (2.90%) ARM Templates
10 4 (2.90%) RESTful
11 3 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (2.17%) HTML
11 3 (2.17%) JSON
11 3 (2.17%) Microsoft Graph
11 3 (2.17%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 22 (15.94%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.87%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (9.42%) Product Ownership
4 12 (8.70%) Onboarding
5 10 (7.25%) Data Centre
6 6 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (3.62%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (3.62%) FlexPod
8 4 (2.90%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (2.90%) IoT
9 3 (2.17%) Cyber Security Posture
9 3 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (2.17%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.45%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (1.45%) Replication
11 1 (0.72%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.72%) EMC VMAX
11 1 (0.72%) EMC VNX
11 1 (0.72%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (13.77%) Linux
2 8 (5.80%) VMS
3 7 (5.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (4.35%) CoreOS
4 6 (4.35%) Data ONTAP
4 6 (4.35%) Windows
5 4 (2.90%) Unix
6 3 (2.17%) AIX
7 1 (0.72%) Android
7 1 (0.72%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.72%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (52.90%) DevOps
2 71 (51.45%) CI/CD
3 32 (23.19%) Containerisation
4 30 (21.74%) Agile
5 29 (21.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 28 (20.29%) Test Automation
7 25 (18.12%) Stakeholder Management
8 24 (17.39%) Cybersecurity
9 23 (16.67%) Observability
10 22 (15.94%) DevSecOps
11 21 (15.22%) Identity Access Management
11 21 (15.22%) Migration
12 20 (14.49%) Infrastructure as Code
13 19 (13.77%) Analytics
14 18 (13.04%) AI
14 18 (13.04%) Data Ingestion
14 18 (13.04%) ETL
14 18 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
15 17 (12.32%) Data Protection
15 17 (12.32%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 43 (31.16%) Python
2 35 (25.36%) Java
3 30 (21.74%) SQL
4 15 (10.87%) Bash
5 13 (9.42%) PowerShell
6 10 (7.25%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.35%) Go
8 5 (3.62%) PHP
9 4 (2.90%) Cypher
9 4 (2.90%) Groovy
9 4 (2.90%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.90%) Scala
9 4 (2.90%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.17%) Bicep
10 3 (2.17%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.45%) C#
12 1 (0.72%) X++
Qualifications
1 6 (4.35%) AWS Certification
1 6 (4.35%) Degree
1 6 (4.35%) Security Cleared
2 5 (3.62%) CISSP
2 5 (3.62%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (3.62%) OCP
2 5 (3.62%) Oracle Certification
3 4 (2.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 4 (2.90%) CCSP
3 4 (2.90%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (2.90%) CISM
3 4 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.17%) CCSK
5 2 (1.45%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.45%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.72%) CCA
6 1 (0.72%) NCDA
6 1 (0.72%) NCIE
6 1 (0.72%) RHCA
6 1 (0.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.42%) QA
2 6 (4.35%) PCI DSS
3 5 (3.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.62%) NIST
4 4 (2.90%) HIPAA
4 4 (2.90%) SLA
4 4 (2.90%) SOC 2
5 3 (2.17%) GDPR
6 2 (1.45%) GRC
7 1 (0.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.72%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.72%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 18 (13.04%) Docker
2 16 (11.59%) Active Directory
3 15 (10.87%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (7.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (5.07%) NFS
5 7 (5.07%) vSphere
6 5 (3.62%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 3 (2.17%) Hyper-V
8 2 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.72%) Ceph
9 1 (0.72%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.72%) KVM
9 1 (0.72%) SRDF
9 1 (0.72%) XenApp
9 1 (0.72%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 46 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 32 (23.19%) Terraform
3 22 (15.94%) Ansible
4 11 (7.97%) Grafana
5 6 (4.35%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.35%) SnapMirror
6 5 (3.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (2.90%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (2.17%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (1.45%) Argo
10 1 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.72%) EMC VPLEX
10 1 (0.72%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.72%) Istio
10 1 (0.72%) Kibana
10 1 (0.72%) logstash
10 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.72%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.72%) SnapVault
10 1 (0.72%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 33 (23.91%) Microsoft
2 22 (15.94%) ServiceNow
3 21 (15.22%) Google
4 10 (7.25%) Databricks
4 10 (7.25%) VMware
5 9 (6.52%) Oracle
6 8 (5.80%) Red Hat
6 8 (5.80%) Splunk
7 7 (5.07%) NetApp
7 7 (5.07%) OpenAI
8 4 (2.90%) Alibaba
9 3 (2.17%) AppDynamics
9 3 (2.17%) Aruba
9 3 (2.17%) CyberArk
9 3 (2.17%) IBM
9 3 (2.17%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.45%) EMC
10 2 (1.45%) Ping Identity
10 2 (1.45%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.45%) Veeam